Necktie holder



T. M. GUEST.

NECKTIE HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 12. 1920.

1. 42 1 8 3 Patented Aug. 15, 1922 warren stares THEODORE 1V1. GUEST,

NECKTIE HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented 15 19 22;

Application filed Novernber 12, 1920. Serial NO. 423,626.

To all whom it may concern: 1

Be it known that I, THEODORE M. GUEsT, a

citizen of the United States, residing at tion on a collar button where it will remain securely fastened until removed by the wearer.

With the foregoing'and other objects in view which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the comblnation and arrangement of parts and 1n the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed, it being understoodv that within the scope of what is claimed,

changes in the precise embodiment of the in-.

vention shown can be made without departing from the spirit of the invention;

In the accompanying drawings the preferred forms of the invention have been shown. I I

In said drawings Figure 1 is a front elevation of the de-,

vice in position, a portion of the collar being broken away.

by dotted lines.

Figure 2 is a front elevation of the at tachment constituting the present invention Figure 3 is a side elevation thereof showing the same in position on a button, one of the positions of the device being indicated Figure l 1 fied form.

Figure 5 is a perspective view of another modified form.

Referring to the figures by characters of reference 1 designates aslightly elongated wire loop at the end of which are provided oppositely extending U-shaped portionsv 2 disposed in a plane substantially at right angles to the loop 1, as shown particularly in Figure 3, each of these U-shaped members merging into elongated arms 3 which are crossed, as shown, and extend upwardly and laterally beyond the loop 1v and form compound curves. The entire device is made of one length of wire preferably of a springy nature, it being understood that the width s a perspective view of a modiof the opening in the loop ,1 is less than the' diameter of the head H of the collar button B with which the device is to be employed.

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ameter of the head H. Thus by, holding the attachment in the position indicated by dotted lines in Figure 3 it can be placed on the shank of the button 13 by inserting the head H between the U-shapedportionsfl. The device can then be swung upwardly to the position shown by full lines in Figure 3, causing the shank of the button to snap into the open end of the loop 1 andcome to I I position within said loopso tha't the head H will lie in front of the loop and prevent the device from becoming detached fromthe button.

Before placing the device in position on the button it is necessary first to apply the appearance of an ordinary four-i'n-hand.

tie T to the holder so that it will have the r 1 2 To remov'e'the device itis of course necesfl sary to reverse the operation just described by swinging the arms of the attachment downwardly to the position indicated by dotted lines in Figure 3 and then withdraw the device fromthe button. Instead of providingthe open loop 1 with the opposed U-shaped portions 2 as shown in Figures 2 and 3, the device'may be constructed as shown in Figure & wherein an open endedloop 4 is providedwith downwardly diverging arms 5 which, in turn,

merge into oppositely extending portions 6 from which extend curved arms 7 corre- I sponding with the arms With this arrangement the device can be applied'by in:

serting the head of the button between the diverging arms 5 and then thrusting the loop 4 onto the shank of the button and be hind the head thereof. Instead of having; r crossed arms as shown in Figure l the diverging arms be arranged as shown in Figure 5 at 8, these arms being bent upon themselves as at.9 and extended outwardly along diverging curved lines as indicated at 10. l

lVhat is claimed is:

A necktie holder including a single length of spring wire bent to form a loop having a contracted open lower end, up-

wardly divergingcurved arms having free upper ends, and integral vconnections between the arms and the sides of the contracted open end of the loop, said connections being spaced apart to provide a broad button receiving space opening into the contracted open end of the loop and being disposed in a plane at an angle to the plane of the arms, thereby to support the loop back of the arms and at an angle to the plane thereof and to the plane of the connections.

JENNIE B. GUEST, BEATRICE J. GUEST. 

